America is done with “pride” for this year and it was underwhelming. And aren’t we glad?
Federal buildings did not fly rainbow flags. The White House was not lit up in rainbow colors. Corporate support was tepid.
And thanks to sanity among most on the Supreme Court, our children may soon experience an altered school climate free of the stifling “pride” agenda.
How can we stop “LGBTQ” school corruption? After Mahmoud and Skrmetti, let us count the ways.
Just as “pride” month closed, the Supreme Court bestowed on our nation these precious legal gifts wrapped in familial love, sane medicine, respected faith and parental oversight.
The United States v. Skrmetti ruling was a huge boost to those who have been fighting the insane “trans” movement for a decade. Perhaps we will see the madness end with science and biology re-embraced, at least in some states. Our children deserve truth in health care, not witch doctors who don’t “affirm” gender but destroy it. Praise God the gender clinic at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles is closing its doors.
And let’s combine Skrmetti, the Trump executive order on gender ideology, federal mandates to follow Title IX, and the laws in many states that may now go forward. Girls’ teams allowing boys to play face likely successful court challenges and lost funding. Teachers or counselors who help students secretly “transition” without parental consent, or coaches who allow “trans” students on girls’ teams without parental notice, are treading on legally thin ice, not to mention loss of federal funds.
And it should go without saying that school bathroom use needs to be based on biology. We had a successful bill passed in Ohio this past year. It should be followed.
Already, the state of California had been warned that its sex education program PREP must delete any promotion of gender “change” or face federal cuts. And its state athletic association as well as the California Department of Education have been declared in violation of Title IX by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights for allowing boys to play on girl teams.
And then let’s look at Mahmoud v. Taylor, which opens up a world of possibilities for scaling back or eliminating “LGBTQ” propaganda in schools altogether. And I have a personal interest in celebrating the outcome as a board member of Protect Ohio Children, which signed an amicus brief in the case.
Some school establishment defenders are already wailing that the Mahmoud ruling will allow an unworkable number of opportunities for parental opt out. Where that is true, it’s a problem of the schools’ own making. For too long, only one approved progressive viewpoint has prevailed in many schools, with no allowances for dissent. Sometimes instruction is at odds with many families’ religious views- like evolution taught as “fact,” e.g. Often both instruction and school policies have treated homosexual and gender confused behaviors as if they are without serious objection and should be embraced by all.
Here are some school programs where parents should have the absolute right to challenge schools, opt out and possibly sue:
- Raunchy and one-sided library content. Not only are many school libraries filled with outright porn, too many librarians proudly create “LGBTQ” book exhibits for October “LGBTQ History Month,” for April “Day of (No) Silence,” “pride” month and more. These exhibits are shoved in kids’ faces with no opportunity for avoidance. I would guess these displays are actually nauseating to many students, even those without faith objections. Recommendation: demand that libraries remove sexually explicit/LGBTQ content, or at the very least, require parental consent for student access to any such material and end all such promotional exhibits.
- Concocted “LGBTQ” events. Schools that observe the increasingly numerous homosexual and transgender events ( see list HERE) must give prior notice to all families, or end these promotions. The truth is, these events promote harmful and immoral conduct, not responsible behavior.
- Homosexual clubs, “gay-straight alliances,” etc. Schools must require parental notice preceding any student attendance at such clubs, and the clubs should cease widespread school promotion of the events mentioned above. In some schools, these clubs have the run of the school because administrators have been afraid not to let them use school publications, announcements, bulletin boards, etc. at will.
- Classroom “rainbow” libraries. In order to avoid the parent criticism of “LGBTQ” material in libraries, some teachers include their own small book collections inside each classroom. Some of these collections are donated by activist groups like GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. This is de facto offensive to many families and so is the practice of reading such books to elementary classrooms (the bone of contention in the Mahmoud case). It’s an activity that needs to stop, and if it doesn’t, parents need to launch legal challenges.
- Social emotional learning lessons, surveys and activities that push and normalize “LGBTQ” behaviors. Two years ago, a middle school in Ohio held a mock lesbian “wedding” between two students during a regular SEL period. Such outrageous activities need to stop.
- Teacher training programs that communicate the pretense that gender “transition” or homosexual behavior are natural and normal for students, and should be supported.
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Any classroom lesson that covers the topics of gender ideology or sexual orientation. It the content is favorable without fair and equal time to the arguments against such behaviors, it needs to end.
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Listing pornographic/child endangerment “resources” like The Trevor Project on school websites and in suicide prevention programs. Any child who obtains Trevor’s number at school and calls is a ripe target for that group’s rank exploitation and the school should be held liable. For all the reasons Trevor is dangerous, go HERE.
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Discrimination in accordance with the Trump Executive Order on “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.” Schools should eliminate every school reference to (at least) gender ideology and also, hopefully, sexual orientation. By defending these behaviors/identities as if they are a separate class of human (not true), the school is always in conflict with the religious freedom rights of many families.
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Parent groups with aberrant agendas need to be honest with parents about where they stand. The national PTA is no longer a trustworthy group, having gone totally pro-“LGBTQ.” See HERE.
And the Mahmoud and Skrmetti cases provide added ammunition for bringing discrimination causes of action against schools. For instance, in the Mahmoud case, among Montgomery County schools’ DEI criteria for choosing “pride storybooks” were, “Is heteronormativity reinforced or disrupted?” Is cisnormativity reinforced or disrupted? Are power hierarchies that uphold the dominant culture reinforced or disrupted?”
Most families don’t want “heteronormativity” or normal heterosexuality ( “cisnormativity”) disrupted, nor insane assumptions about “power hierarchies” to drive English language arts curriculum in our schools. Any similar decision-making processes are actionable legal offenses of blatant discrimination, not to mention insufferably vapid academic content.
The fact that the vast majority of faith families have not sued schools for their outrageous promotion of this depravity only testifies to the grace being shown to schools where often they deserve none.
It’s time for Christians and other faith families to remember the Mahmoud and Skrmetti cases as defense against the galloping “LGBTQ” activism using schools as platforms to indoctrinate children.
Let’s set our children free at last.
